Tag: Renan Calheiros

• Thursday, December 8th 2016 - 11:44 UTC

  Brazil Supreme Court defuses clash with Senate, but Calheiros no longer in presidential succession line

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Court voted Wednesday to leave Senate President Renan Calheiros in his powerful leadership post, raising hopes economic overhauls making their way through Congress can be approved.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2016 - 10:57 UTC

  Constitutional clash in Brazil, Senate disobeys Supreme Court: countdown for Temer presidency?

  

  Brazil moved a step closer to a constitutional crisis on Tuesday as the head of the Senate refused to abide by a Supreme Court Justice ruling stripping him of his powerful post. A defiant Sen. Renan Calheiros told reporters he won’t recognize a decision handed down late Monday by a single high-court judge. The clash could mean the beginning of the countdown for president Michel Temer weak administration and his fiscal reforms program

• Tuesday, December 6th 2016 - 06:43 UTC

  Renan Calheiros suspended from Parliament during his trial for corruption

  

  Brazil's Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros was suspended from duties by a Supreme Curt judge Monday, pending his trial where he faces corruption charges in what constitutes anothe blow to President Michel Temer's administration. The decision, made by judge Marco Aurelio Mello was effective immediately, but needs to be confirmed by a majority of judges on the supreme court bench, a court official said.

• Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 07:11 UTC

  Supreme Court lets three powerful Temer allies off the hook

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court has rejected a request by the nation’s Attorney General to arrest three senior members of acting President Michel Temer’s party in connection with the massive corruption investigation focused on Petrobras.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2016 - 07:31 UTC

  Brazilian prosecution asks for the arrest of senior figures of Temer's government

  

  Brazil's political crisis heated up Tuesday, as authorities reportedly sought the arrests of senior figures behind the push to impeach suspended president Dilma Rousseff, accusing them of obstructing a corruption probe, according to the country's leading newspapers. This happens less than two months to go before Rio de Janeiro hosts the Summer Olympics.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 07:00 UTC

  Second cabinet knock out in Brazil: this time the Transparency minister

  

  Brazilian interim president Michel Temer's government has suffered a new blow when his anti-corruption minster resigned on Monday after leaked recordings showed him trying to squash a massive corruption scandal that has ensnarled the country's political and business elite.

• Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 05:36 UTC

  Brazil's senate president caught on recording trying to stifle the Petrobras investigation

  

  The president of Brazil's Senate was put on the defensive with the release of a secretly recorded conversation that reveals him proposing to weaken one of the key tools prosecutors have used to catch politicians and businessmen in a sweeping corruption scandal.

• Thursday, May 12th 2016 - 08:37 UTC

  Senate votes to remove Rousseff, but the target number is 54, two thirds of the upper house

  

  A clear majority of Brazil's Senate indicated on Thursday it will vote to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for breaking budget laws, signaling the end of 13 years of rule by the populist Workers Party in Latin America's largest nation.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 08:22 UTC

  Brazil's Lower House speaker removed by the Supreme Court on justice obstruction

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court removed the speaker of the lower house of Congress on Thursday on charges of obstructing a corruption investigation, days before an impeachment process that he engineered was expected to oust President Dilma Rousseff.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2016 - 08:23 UTC

  Rousseff vows to fight impeachment 'to the very end' in the Senate, where she is short of ten votes

  

  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff vowed on Monday to fight impeachment to the very end in the Senate after a Sunday heavy defeat in the lower house of Congress raised the likelihood of an end to her administration and 13 years of populist rule in Latin America's largest economy.